Poor Joshua
The DeShaney Case and Child Abuse in America
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2018
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7049-8 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7049-8 (ISBN)
Tells the story of a tragic Supreme Court decision involving child abuse and what might be done to rectify it.
In DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, a bitterly divided Supreme Court rejected a claim brought on behalf of five-year old Joshua DeShaney, left permanently disabled after sustained abuse, despite regular home visits by social workers charged with monitoring his welfare. In its decision the court asserted that the state has no duty to shield citizens from private violence, even those involved in their lives and knowing of their distress. Poor Joshua tracks the story from its origins in small town Wisconsin to the Supreme Court and chronicles the tragic consequences of the majority decision. John R. Howard shows how that decision became the rock on which later child abuse cases foundered, and how it echoes today in every newspaper story about society's failure to protect children. The continuing vitality of DeShaney, he argues, derives from a persistent sense that the decision is legally incorrect and profoundly at odds with the underlying values of the Constitution. The case is also about different visions of our social order and the relationship between "law" and "justice." Howard summarizes the substantial law review literature critical of the DeShaney decision and erects the scaffolding for a counterargument bringing law into a closer alignment with justice.
In DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, a bitterly divided Supreme Court rejected a claim brought on behalf of five-year old Joshua DeShaney, left permanently disabled after sustained abuse, despite regular home visits by social workers charged with monitoring his welfare. In its decision the court asserted that the state has no duty to shield citizens from private violence, even those involved in their lives and knowing of their distress. Poor Joshua tracks the story from its origins in small town Wisconsin to the Supreme Court and chronicles the tragic consequences of the majority decision. John R. Howard shows how that decision became the rock on which later child abuse cases foundered, and how it echoes today in every newspaper story about society's failure to protect children. The continuing vitality of DeShaney, he argues, derives from a persistent sense that the decision is legally incorrect and profoundly at odds with the underlying values of the Constitution. The case is also about different visions of our social order and the relationship between "law" and "justice." Howard summarizes the substantial law review literature critical of the DeShaney decision and erects the scaffolding for a counterargument bringing law into a closer alignment with justice.
John R. Howard is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Purchase College, the State University of New York, and the author of The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Brown, also published by SUNY Press.
Acknowledgments
Part I: Journey to a Distant Land
1. An American Story
2. Background to Judgment Day
3. Things Unseen
4. Into the Night
5. A Light Too Late
Part II: The Law’s Majesty
6. Prologue to Armageddon
7. In a Distant Place
8. The Supreme Court Decides
9. The Crying Game
10. Rearguing DeShaney
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 381 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-7049-5 / 1438470495 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-7049-8 / 9781438470498 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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